HW5 - Make Data Move
Hanna Matera
05/10/2020
Explore the recent global developments with R
Today, you will load a filtered gapminder dataset - with a subset of data on global development from 1952 - 2007 in increments of 5 years - to capture the period between the Second World War and the Global Financial Crisis.
Your task: Explore the data and visualise it in both static and animated ways, providing answers and solutions to 7 questions/tasks below.
Get the necessary packages
First, start with installing the relevant packages ‘tidyverse’, ‘gganimate’, and ‘gapminder’.
## -- Attaching packages ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tidyverse 1.2.1 --## v ggplot2 3.2.1 v purrr 0.3.2
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## x dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
## x dplyr::lag() masks stats::lag()## Warning: package 'gganimate' was built under R version 3.5.2Look at the data
First, see which specific years are actually represented in the dataset and what variables are being recorded for each country. Note that when you run the cell below, Rmarkdown will give you two results - one for each line - that you can flip between.
unique(gapminder$year) # years from '52 until '07 ## [1] 1952 1957 1962 1967 1972 1977 1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007head(gapminder)## # A tibble: 6 x 6
## country continent year lifeExp pop gdpPercap
## <fct> <fct> <int> <dbl> <int> <dbl>
## 1 Afghanistan Asia 1952 28.8 8425333 779.
## 2 Afghanistan Asia 1957 30.3 9240934 821.
## 3 Afghanistan Asia 1962 32.0 10267083 853.
## 4 Afghanistan Asia 1967 34.0 11537966 836.
## 5 Afghanistan Asia 1972 36.1 13079460 740.
## 6 Afghanistan Asia 1977 38.4 14880372 786.levels(gapminder$country) #inspecting all the countries included in the data frame## [1] "Afghanistan" "Albania"
## [3] "Algeria" "Angola"
## [5] "Argentina" "Australia"
## [7] "Austria" "Bahrain"
## [9] "Bangladesh" "Belgium"
## [11] "Benin" "Bolivia"
## [13] "Bosnia and Herzegovina" "Botswana"
## [15] "Brazil" "Bulgaria"
## [17] "Burkina Faso" "Burundi"
## [19] "Cambodia" "Cameroon"
## [21] "Canada" "Central African Republic"
## [23] "Chad" "Chile"
## [25] "China" "Colombia"
## [27] "Comoros" "Congo, Dem. Rep."
## [29] "Congo, Rep." "Costa Rica"
## [31] "Cote d'Ivoire" "Croatia"
## [33] "Cuba" "Czech Republic"
## [35] "Denmark" "Djibouti"
## [37] "Dominican Republic" "Ecuador"
## [39] "Egypt" "El Salvador"
## [41] "Equatorial Guinea" "Eritrea"
## [43] "Ethiopia" "Finland"
## [45] "France" "Gabon"
## [47] "Gambia" "Germany"
## [49] "Ghana" "Greece"
## [51] "Guatemala" "Guinea"
## [53] "Guinea-Bissau" "Haiti"
## [55] "Honduras" "Hong Kong, China"
## [57] "Hungary" "Iceland"
## [59] "India" "Indonesia"
## [61] "Iran" "Iraq"
## [63] "Ireland" "Israel"
## [65] "Italy" "Jamaica"
## [67] "Japan" "Jordan"
## [69] "Kenya" "Korea, Dem. Rep."
## [71] "Korea, Rep." "Kuwait"
## [73] "Lebanon" "Lesotho"
## [75] "Liberia" "Libya"
## [77] "Madagascar" "Malawi"
## [79] "Malaysia" "Mali"
## [81] "Mauritania" "Mauritius"
## [83] "Mexico" "Mongolia"
## [85] "Montenegro" "Morocco"
## [87] "Mozambique" "Myanmar"
## [89] "Namibia" "Nepal"
## [91] "Netherlands" "New Zealand"
## [93] "Nicaragua" "Niger"
## [95] "Nigeria" "Norway"
## [97] "Oman" "Pakistan"
## [99] "Panama" "Paraguay"
## [101] "Peru" "Philippines"
## [103] "Poland" "Portugal"
## [105] "Puerto Rico" "Reunion"
## [107] "Romania" "Rwanda"
## [109] "Sao Tome and Principe" "Saudi Arabia"
## [111] "Senegal" "Serbia"
## [113] "Sierra Leone" "Singapore"
## [115] "Slovak Republic" "Slovenia"
## [117] "Somalia" "South Africa"
## [119] "Spain" "Sri Lanka"
## [121] "Sudan" "Swaziland"
## [123] "Sweden" "Switzerland"
## [125] "Syria" "Taiwan"
## [127] "Tanzania" "Thailand"
## [129] "Togo" "Trinidad and Tobago"
## [131] "Tunisia" "Turkey"
## [133] "Uganda" "United Kingdom"
## [135] "United States" "Uruguay"
## [137] "Venezuela" "Vietnam"
## [139] "West Bank and Gaza" "Yemen, Rep."
## [141] "Zambia" "Zimbabwe"colnames(gapminder)## [1] "country" "continent" "year" "lifeExp" "pop" "gdpPercap"The dataset contains information on each country in the sampled year, its continent, life expectancy, population, and GDP per capita.
Let’s plot all the countries in 1952.
theme_set(theme_bw()) # set theme to white background for better visibility
ggplot(subset(gapminder, year == 1952), aes(gdpPercap, lifeExp, size = pop)) +
geom_point() +
geom_text(aes(label=country))+ ##adding countries names
scale_x_log10()
gapminder %>%
filter(year == 1952) %>%
arrange(desc(gdpPercap))## # A tibble: 142 x 6
## country continent year lifeExp pop gdpPercap
## <fct> <fct> <int> <dbl> <int> <dbl>
## 1 Kuwait Asia 1952 55.6 160000 108382.
## 2 Switzerland Europe 1952 69.6 4815000 14734.
## 3 United States Americas 1952 68.4 157553000 13990.
## 4 Canada Americas 1952 68.8 14785584 11367.
## 5 New Zealand Oceania 1952 69.4 1994794 10557.
## 6 Norway Europe 1952 72.7 3327728 10095.
## 7 Australia Oceania 1952 69.1 8691212 10040.
## 8 United Kingdom Europe 1952 69.2 50430000 9980.
## 9 Bahrain Asia 1952 50.9 120447 9867.
## 10 Denmark Europe 1952 70.8 4334000 9692.
## # ... with 132 more rowsWe see an interesting spread with an outlier to the right. Answer the following questions, please:
Q1. Why does it make sense to have a log10 scale on x axis?
First of all, because placing gdp per capita on a x-axis makes the graph readable. The reason for using the log scale is that it can help to visualize between large descrepancies of values on a single axis.
Q2. What country is the richest in 1952 (far right on x axis)? Kuwait is the richest country with 108.382 gdp per capita
You can generate a similar plot for 2007 and compare the differences
vis <- ggplot(subset(gapminder, year == 2007), aes(gdpPercap, lifeExp, size = pop,color=continent)) +
geom_point() +
scale_color_viridis_d() +
scale_size(range = c(2, 12))+
geom_text(aes(label=country))+
scale_x_log10() +
labs(title="2007",
x ="GDP per capita", y = "Life Expectancy")
vis
#richest countries in 2007: I amsubsetting the data so that I only am looking at the year 2007. I am using a desc() function to look at the countries gdp/pc in a descending order. Running head(5) snippet results in only 5 countries being printed.
gapminder %>%
filter(year == 2007) %>%
arrange(desc(gdpPercap)) %>%
head(5)## # A tibble: 5 x 6
## country continent year lifeExp pop gdpPercap
## <fct> <fct> <int> <dbl> <int> <dbl>
## 1 Norway Europe 2007 80.2 4627926 49357.
## 2 Kuwait Asia 2007 77.6 2505559 47307.
## 3 Singapore Asia 2007 80.0 4553009 47143.
## 4 United States Americas 2007 78.2 301139947 42952.
## 5 Ireland Europe 2007 78.9 4109086 40676.The black bubbles are a bit hard to read, the comparison would be easier with a bit more visual differentiation.
Q3. Can you differentiate the continents by color and fix the axis labels?
BY adding the following:
- color=continent in the aesthetics I can color-code all continents
b)labs(title=“2007”,x =“GDP per capita”, y = “Life Expectancy”) as a separate formula, I can rename the axes
Q4. What are the five richest countries in the world in 2007?
The five richest countries in 2007 are: Kuwait, Norway, Singapore, United States and Ireland
Make it move!
The comparison would be easier if we had the two graphs together, animated. We have a lovely tool in R to do this: the gganimate package. And there are two ways of animating the gapminder ggplot.
Option 1: Animate using transition_states()
The first step is to create the object-to-be-animated
anim <- ggplot(gapminder, aes(gdpPercap, lifeExp, size = pop,color=continent))+
geom_point() +
labs(title = "Gapminder: animated plot",
x = 'GDP per capita',
y = 'Life expectancy',
size = 'Population',
color = 'Continent')
anim
This plot collates all the points across time. The next step is to split it into years and animate it. This may take some time, depending on the processing power of your computer (and other things you are asking it to do). Beware that the animation might appear in the ‘Viewer’ pane, not in this rmd preview. You need to knit the document to get the viz inside an html file.
anim + transition_states(year,
transition_length = 1,
state_length = 1)
Notice how the animation moves jerkily, ‘jumping’ from one year to the next 12 times in total. This is a bit clunky, which is why it’s good we have another option.
Option 2 Animate using transition_time()
This option smoothes the transition between different ‘frames’, because it interpolates and adds transitional years where there are gaps in the timeseries data.
anim2 <- anim +transition_time(year)
anim2
The much smoother movement in Option 2 will be much more noticeable if you add a title to the chart, that will page through the years corresponding to each frame.
Q5 Can you add a title to one or both of the animations above that will change in sync with the animation? [hint: search labeling for transition_states() and transition_time() functions respectively]
anim3 <- ggplot(gapminder, aes(gdpPercap, lifeExp, size = pop, color = continent)) +
geom_point() +
scale_x_log10() + # convert x to log scale
labs(title = "Year: {frame_time}", #lab that changes every time step
x = 'GDP per capita',
y = 'Life expectancy',
size = 'Population') +
transition_time(year)
anim3
Q6 Can you made the axes’ labels and units more readable? Consider expanding the abreviated lables as well as the scientific notation in the legend and x axis to whole numbers.[hint:search disabling scientific notation]
library(ggplot2,scales)
#making the axes and labels comprehensible
anim2 +
scale_size_continuous(label = scales::comma) + #Scales the population size (full numbers)
scale_x_log10(labels = scales::comma) #Scales the GDP per capita values on the x-axis to full numbers